La Paz/Muertos May 11th, Report

Keone · 05-11-2008, 04:05 PM

PHOTO 1: The smile says it all. Nothing better than a kid who catches a fish! Sebastian Villareal is 12-years-old and came down with his family for the first time to La Paz. It was a great week for roosterfishing as shown by this striped pez gallo! Larger roosters moved into the shallows with fish up to 50 pounds. Note how close the panga is to the shore! The fish was released.

BIG ROOSTERS PACE HEAVY INSHORE ACTION FOR SPECIES BECAUSE WINDS KEEP ANGLERS FROM HEADING OFFSHORE!

LA PAZ / LAS ARENAS FISHING REPORT FOR MAY 11th, 2008

PHOTO 2: Mark Langley from Orange Co. CA makes it down almost yearly with his wife (see below) to fish with us. Check out the burly rooster he got here just outside Muertos Bay. the fish was released.

PHOTO 2: The beauty of working the shoreline. Check out the variety of fish in front of Mo Langley! Someone is gonna have a smoking-good barbecue! In frnot of her are nice pargo (big red fish), yellowtail and cabrilla. The small yellowtail made several big charges this past week with boats getting 10-20 of the fish.

PHOTO 3: Even sideways, this is a nice fish for Scott Luker from Santa Maria CA. There's a reason that the Mexican name for these members of the jack family that fight like crazy. The English name is "jack crevalle." The Mexicans call them "toro." (bull). Extremely tough on light tackle.

PHOTO 4: Josh Kiffe from Grover Beach CA holds up another nice jack crevalle. These fish often hold up in some fairly large schools. Where there's one...there's others! It can last for hours if you keep them around the boat and often they are close enough to fish from the beach.

PHOTO 5: You don't know jack! Yes...along with yellowtail, roosterfish, jack crevalle and others, this African pompano is also a member of the jack family and has the same bad attitude when hooked. Sebastian Villareal from Rosarita Beach holds him here.

PHOTO 6: Beach spread! Sebastian and Pablo Villareal pose in front of a fine day of inshore fishing. Pictured here are yellowtail, African pompano, barred pargo, big eye jacks, and yellow snapper. They also got many jack crevalle and roosters that were released.

THIS FISHING REPORT
Well...the fishing wasn't great. It wasn't bad either. But winds that had been good to us for several weeks came roaring back just to remind us with a kick in the keister that it's still spring! "In like a lion and out like a lamb."

Consequently, most of our fishing was out of Las Arenas/ Muertos Bay where it's more protected and we didn't do that much fishing from La Paz.

That also meant getting to some of the outside fishing spots was an excercise in misery unless you like getting wet and getting your kidneys jarred into your lungs. So....we stayed inshore where we know there's fish!

Therefore, you won't see any dorado or marlin photos this week, but some excellent stuff close to shore. In fact, just to let us know they're still around, the roosters came on several days like gangbusters and they brought bigger cousins with them. Several fish in the 40-60 pound class were hooked and most of them either busted off or released. The hot spot seemed to be around the Las Arenas lighthouse in that long stretch of white beach that's famous as the "roosterfish capital of the world."

Also...not many of the big yellowtail around anymore either. For about 3 months the AVERAGE horse was about 25-40 pounds. Part of that might be the waters getting too warm and the other might be that we just haven't been fishing in the yellowtail spots because of the wind. However, for several days, punk yellowtail in the 5-10 pound class were like mad puppies charging the boats with double and triple hooksup as fast as you could bait-up! Most boats ended up with 10-20 of the smaller yellowtail and had a blast. I guess it's too soon to say the yellowtail bite is dead!

If the winds flatten out this week, I think we'll have a better bite. We'll keep you posted! The late breaking report for the last few days of the week were big dorado on the outer banks up to 40 pounds so we'll be scouting that plus there's marlin hanging there as well! Praying for no wind!

Have a great week!
That's my story...

Jonathan